Once Upon A Time

"Once upon a time..."
That's how most fairytales begin, and that is perhaps the way our story shall also begin. One that we will tell our lil 'dorogaya' (which means 'darling' in Russian) once she/he is in our lives about how we all found each other and how he/she grew not in mummy's tummy but in mummy & daddy's heart. About how, truly like in a fairy tale, after trials and tribulations, and voyages across the seas, villians who made things diffcult and angels who saved the day, we became a family. And lived happily ever after. :)

Hopefully by this time next year, if we are lucky and if things fall into place which Im sure they will (fingers crossed).
 This blog will be our diary through this journey. The journey from being husband and wife, to that of being Mommy and Daddy.

We know there will be highs and lows, ups and downs, moments which will be scary, emotionally painful & those that will give us hope which will remind us that at the end this will be so worth everything that we go through. But isnt that what having a baby by birth also involves? The fear of something going wrong along the way, but the hope that we will all make it through safely, the pain involved, the emotional rollercoaster, etc. But everything is worth it the second you see your baby! And that...is what we will keep reminding ourselves when it seems tough or impossible to go through.

For I know in my heart that somewhere right now tens of thousands of miles away, across the world, there lies a little baby in a cot or cradle that is waiting for us. Our baby! Our dorogaya!

Now, all that we have to do, is not give up trying to bring him/her home, to do whatever it takes so she/he can come home and we are a family. So, dear God, keep our baby safe, wherever he/she is, till we are all home together. Amen.